[BlindMath] Transitioning from Completely Visual Math to Less Visual Math

[Nicholas J]

Thank you for the email about the textbooks Łukasz. Many of the braille
displays I have seen only show one line of a book or text. Are there any
that show multiple lines? If the textbook is a pdf, will the screen reader
be able to read the math notation? If the math notation is not in mathml,
is it easy to make it in mathml?

Thank you,
Nicholas

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:21 PM, Nicholas J <314nick15 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I’m considering doing a Master’s in statistics, but I do not want to go
> back to the technology that I used before. I used a cctv to view the board
> and zoomtext as a screen magnifier. All the cctvs I have used have still
> left me not able to see what was happening in most of my classes before and
> zoomtext made things slower for me because of so much magnification. Right
> now I am transitioning to using Jaws for the computer, but I am not sure
> what to do for things like the boards in classes, writing, and things like
> that. I don’t write notes because I am slow at it since I have to write big
> and I usually still can’t understand what I wrote because of how quickly I
> wrote it and how unreadable it is. I have been looking at doing things in
> braille, but am not sure if that is the best way to go. I thought it might
> take a lot of time also to learn it. I still think it may be helpful in
> some situations (maybe graphics which I could almost never discern
> correctly the more complicated they got). I have been reading through all
> the posts here about latex and having Jaws read them and other kinds of
> technologies, but I am not sure what kinds of technology are best for the
> transition of doing everything visually to doing things less visually. My
> vision has always stayed the same, but the field I am working in is
> statistics and it gets very small and specific for notation and everything.
> Main Question: What technology and how can I do math more electronically
> and less visually? I am learning Jaws, braille, and Kurzweil.
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Nicholas
>